Artists Describing Their Art:

Marino Chanlatte - I started painting a long time before I realized it was my passion, and that I would be a painter. I felt the inner need to express through painting, in a freely and spontaneous way, my feelings, thoughts, ideas and fantasies that appeared as visions ... I use color, texture, shapes, light, and shadows to express myself. If my work communicates any emotion or feeling to the viewer, then I accomplished my purpose....

Rufus Adeniyi - I am a widely traveled Nigerian Aesthetics consultant. A graduate of South Thames College, London and University of London Goldsmith College. I believed in Art as a way of life and a reflection of the spiritual and socio-economic life of the people. My flair for natural things of beauty has no measure. Apart from my Art gallery, I also run a consultancy firm in all forms of artistic embellishment in fine furnishing for corporate bodies, private individuals and diplomatic missions. Married and strongly believed in modesty and fair play....

Will Birdwell - I started painting late in life read my BIO There are many things about art that I dont understand. I dont understand how a person can display a blank piece of canvas and call it art, AND, have others agree. With all do respect to Warhol, I didnt understand the soup cans either. I realize that many artists try to get the viewer to think. I get that, but I need a little more to work with. I want beauty. Many of my paintings are based on space. The universe. I have been fascinated by the Hubble telescope photographs since they first became available to the public. I think The Hubble is the most important piece of equipment ever created. I realize that others would argue for other technology and machines or Ideas that feed the belly. I get that, but Hubble feeds the mind. It creates and provides the most beautiful art available..........anywhere. It abolishes long held mythical superstitions about life itself. Thinking art. Far better than a soup can and blank canvas. WILL ...

Arup Lodh - Recreate the Magic of Enjoying Kolkata - a word woven with mystery. A city with as many unique interpretations as its people. It always remained at the center of our curiosities and discussions. There is one more Kolkata which is being passed over to us through stories and tales from our grandparents aEUR"the yesteryearaEURtms Kolkata. A city, where one could take a tram ride with mere 2 paisa. A raise of one paisa in fare would put the city roads on fire and bring life to a standstill. This very characteristic also gave the city a unique distinction of being the city of revolutionprotest. I Arup Lodh, am a budding artist of todayaEURtms Kolkata. Like many of you, I have also learnt about the yesteryearaEURtms Kolkata through those enchanting endless stories and tales from my family, through books, through journals and write ups from that era. However, a lot has changed from what the city used to be to what it is now. Definitely, one of the notable changes is aEUR" it is no longer the crowned capital of India. But neither it is has dampen the joyous mood of the city nor of its people. The society has ...

Reni Varoli - My art and my soul are related , my soul and my feelings are related ... When I am painting I don't think I just BE ! If you need to ask me the reason why I paint , is because you do not get me , then if you can' get me , ma painting will not satisfy your soul....

Pauline Van De Ven - I am a digital painter exploring the new medium of vector. Vector-art is a cooperation between the artist and the computer. Lines, forms and colors are made by the hand of the artist and the computer influences them in a certain way. Behind the screen, it ties all handmade lines and patches of color to mathematical formulas, known as Bezier curves. This gives them more simplicity, more contrast and a higher resolution than can be achieved by hand. Colors are pure monochromes or very fine computer-calculated gradients. While there is hardly any art in vector yet, its amazing property of fixed resolution - a vector image can be blown up to any size without becoming blurred - makes it popular in advertising. At first I rejected the bold appearance of the medium. Ceci est un Oeuf 2015 expresses the dislike. Its hard lines, monochrome colors and perfect gradients seemed to limit the emotional palette to messages of simple happiness and joy famous from Matisses cut-outs, or the brutal surrealistics of a Daly, while I am more attracted to the Bonnards, Vuillards, Sisleys or De Staels, Vermeers silent here-and-now and the introvert abstracts of artists like Schoonhoven and ...